President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians for their future state.
The UAE stuck out its neck for a concession. Will this Abraham Accord pave the way for more Arab states to make peace with Israel to focus on the true enemy of all, Iran?
Let's remind the Arab world that Iran wants to fight Israel to the last dead Arab.
UPDATE: This looks promising. Contrast this success with the "scaled down" objectives the Obama administration set for the Middle East in his second term.
UPDATE: Iran issues a threat to the UAE for making peace with Israel. Meanwhile the UNSC refuses to extend the arms embargo on nutball Iran while Iran rejoices in the votes it got. Ah, the joys of UN collective security against aggression.
UPDATE: The idea that the loss in the security council on the Iran arms embargo is an American defeat is only technically true. But unless we wanted to let the embargo go without making the UN demonstrate how worthless it is in collective security, what was the option? Water it down until even Russia and China would support it (or at least withhold their veto)?
UPDATE: This is kind of funny considering Hezbollah has lost more troops fighting Syrians on behalf of Iran than it has fighting Israel:
"This is a betrayal of Islam and Arabism, it is a betrayal of Jerusalem, of the Palestinian people," Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said.
And being Persian Iran's cannon fodder is okey dokey, Arabism-wise? Well, Iran is calling so Hezbollah comes running:
It's a job, I guess.
